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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06
a wArcHMAKER's FAME.

T. s. Bartlett was one of the origi-
nal foremen in the pioneer Waltham
factory, and his name was adopted as
. trademark and has been running as
such very nearly thirty years. At the
lowest calculation 500, 900 Bartlett
watches have been made and sold.
The exact figures are not at hand, but
this is about as near as can be esti-
mated. The Bartlett watch is unques-
tionably one of the most popular
watches ever made. It ranks almost
As high as the adjusted Appleton,
Tracy & Co.," and is, in fact, con-
structed ON the same model. The pat
emit regulator Bartlett is full jeweled,
has . compromising balance fitted with
the Waltham patent Breguet hair
spring, which Is hardened and tenn
pered in form SO as never to change its
curve, and is very closely regulated. It
ID made for any kind Of silver or gold
cases The latest Improvement in the
Bartlett watch is in the open-face style
TO wind and set without ever opening
the case, the winding as well as the
hand-setting being done by the crown
only. Unlike the arrangements in 9TH
er watches this Bartlett hand-set is in
the neck Of the case, 90 that it does not
at all complicate the movement. Up
ward of 1000 of them have been pur-
chased by the British Government dur
ing the past ten years and are used on
the state railways in India. For the
same purpose the colonial authorities
Of New South Wales, Victoria and
South Australia have large orders in
hand. Through these excellent time
keepers p. s. Bartlett's name is known
in all civilized countries 7. Jeuel-
ers' Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

The lustre of morocco may be re-
stored by vanishing with the white Of
an egg.
"A new, cheap and effective insect
killer is said to be composed of one part
muriate of potash in one thousand parts
of water.-Farps, Field and Stockm0n.
AN English agricultural journal
says that silage to subserve the best
ends must be made with judgment and
used with Judgment
Does any one doubt that good grad
ed animals Of several of the improved
breeds are worth as much at three years
old a. the common breed at four years?
-Montreal Witness.
NO man is likely to properly ma
nure large area of titled land. neither
is such an area likely to be titled with
care. When the yield begins to lessen
it is well to call halt, and straightway
seed down to grass.
Silver becoming black may DO
avoided by keeping that which is not
often used in canton flannel bags, with
small bags about the size of thimble
filed with bits of gum-camphor packed
in around the articles. = Cincinnati
Times.
French Biscuits: Beat up the yelks
Of eight eggs and the whites of four;
add one pound Of sugar. two table,
spoonfuls of cinnamon. one quarter
pound of citron cut in small pieces and
one pound Of -four; beat all thoroughly.
Drop in small cakes on Toured baking
sheet.
-Brewis: Four teacups sweet milk,
two teacups of bread crumbs, two
tablespoons butter, salt to season, let
boil and if too thick add a little more
milk. 1t should be of a consistency to
eat with fork. II you carefully save
the crumbs left after eating bread, you
will soon have plenty for breakfast
brewis. Field and Stockman
The soundness of log of timber
may be ascertained by placing the ear
close to one end of it, while another
person delivers succession of smart
blows with hammer or mallet upon
the opposite end when the continuance
of the vibrations will indicate to an ex-
perienced ear even the degree of sound
ness. If only dull thud meets the ear
the listener may be certain that UNI
soundness exists.
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70 be humbugged." This may be true in
the line Of Entertainment, but not where
life Il at stake. A man with consumption,
or any lingering disease, looking Death in
the face and seeking to evade his awful
grasp, does not like to be tri1ed with. 80
with confidence we place before our read
Golden Medical Discovery, . sure relief for
that long train Of diseases resulting from
impure blood, such - Consumption,
Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Liver Complaint,
Kidney Disorder, Dyspepsia, Sick Head
ache, 6crofuls and General Debility. Time
tried and thoroughly tested, 1t stands with
out An equalI Any druggist.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06
NATURES MANuRes.

EXn0u8J0O
Under Rapidly-Growing Crops.
The recuperation Of soils by natures
means is not swift process. The for
nation of the soil originally required
ages of time. First the rock must be
broken down and disintegrated. Then
plants must gradually absorb such por-
tons as are soluble in water or else
present in the atmosphere, and the
plants by decay are reduced to humus.
Then the real work of soil-building
commences in earnest So important
is this humus in the soil that the
average soil from which two inches in
thickness is removed remains for long
period infertile. unless specially treated.
The reason of this is, the humus in
soils, unless mixed artificially with the
under soil, remains next the surface.
: The principal offices of humus are, it
absorbs and retains moisture, furnishes
carbon and the mineral elements in de-
cayed vegetation in soluble state to
plants, and especially is the prime
agent in carrying on chemical trans
formations in the soil, evolving.
through heat and moisture, carbon,
oxygen and hydrogen, and also nitrogen
in a soluble form for the use of plants.
Hence the value of grass and forage
plants that may be fed to animals or
turned under, enriching the soil by their
constituents, or by being plowed under.
Thus in all long cultivated soils the
humus is intimately mixed with the soil
to the depth of blowing, while in soils
never plowed, as in woodland, the
humus, until thoroughly decayed, re-
mains as the top layer of the soil to q
greater or less depth, according to the
amount annually deposited.
Very few farms make sufficient ma
nure from the animals fed to properly
manure the soil, unless stocked to its
full capacity, and then only when great
care is taken to save and make manure
with ali its constituents intact This
is laborious work, and costly as well.
Hence the utility and economy of plow-
ing under sward and other green crops,
as part of the rotation Of the soil. By
this means the whole value Of the crop
is returned to the soil, while in the
feeding of animals only minor part is
so returned. Hence. again, as stated
lately by us, the value of covered fall
lows, rather than of naked ones, when
fallow is considered absolutely neces-
sary.
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SIZE scolds and frets,
She's full Of pets.
She's rarely kind and tenders
The thorn of life

Iwouder what will mend herr
Try DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Ten TO one, your wife Is cross and fretful
because abe Il sick and suffering, and can
not control her nervousness when things
60 wrong. Mako . healthy woman of her
and the chances are you WIN make cheer
full and pleasant one. "Favorite Prescrip-
tion'' Is the only remedy for woman's pc
Culiar ailments, sold by druggists, under q
positive guarantee from the manufactur-
ers, that It will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded. See guar
antee on bottle wrapper. Large bottles
q. Six for s..
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u the way Western man put it in express
ing to friend his complete satisfaction in
the use OF Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
bid fair to suppiant entirely the oid,styis
pill. An ever-ready remedy for Sick and
Bilious Headache, Biliousness, Constip
ton and all blood disorders. Mild in 40
ton, wonderful in effectl Put up In viais,
to carry. Their use attended
with no DISCOMFORT These sterling merits
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writes Mr& Eliza Ann Smith, of vermill-
ion, Eric Co., Ohio, to tell the ladies every
whore that nothing surpasses DR.. Harter's
Iron Tonic for all Irregularities. ut cured
me when the physicians and all other RENE
dioo failed"
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In another column Of this issue win be
found an entirely new and novel specimen
Of attractive advertising. It IL one Of the
neatest ever placed In our paper and we
examining the SUPPOSED display letters in
the advertisement of Prickly Ash Bitters.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

Ls1rxn-ao. Gallagher, would b good
motto for . postage stamp.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

CzuEr. The washer-woman who daily
Wrings mems bosomA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

An nn-ovatien-banquet at . hotel
Hrassps Weeks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

In the city of Akron, O.. sixty
million matches are made daily.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

RxLuv Il immediate, and q cure sure.
Piso's Remedy for Cstarrh. 80 cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

AyHrrBoorsn-the man who does not pay
his cobbleY.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-08-06

A MAN who does business on largo scale
- coal-dealer.-LVs.
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If's wise child that resembles it, rich
est relative. BrsssG
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
NEWSPAPER NOTES.

The Republicans of the Indiana
Legislature have nominated Senator
Harrison by reclamation, but the &C
clamation is strictly confined to The
nomination. The Senator viii grc-
ciously accept any kind of an election
he can get.-N. Y. World.
Mr.. Blaine has accepted an invi-
tation to address the Detroit Republican
Club on the occasion of Washington s
birthday. If, taking the character Of
Washington for his theme. he should
grow eloquent over the beauty of truth
it would be from the pvomptings O.:
Imagination, rather than personal ex
perience.-ChicdgO Times.
With Democratic President
trying TO give the Office of Recorder tc
a colored man and Republican Sen.
ate trying to keep him fron doing SO,
the impression is likely to be made on
the negro mind that, after ali. the
Democrats and not the Republicans are
the friends of the colored race. Should
this condition of mind come to be prev.
alent the solid South will be soldier
than ever. and the last argument of the
bloody-shirt group of Republicans will
be crushed out OF all sembiance to ~
argument.-C Chicago Neics.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
Millionaire Republican Senators.

The United States Senate is now
nearly evenly divided between the two
parties. Twelve years ago it contained
only nineteen Democrats out of seven
ty-four members. In recent Senatorial
elections the Republicans sent to the
Senate Stanford, of CALIFORNIA;; Allison,
of Iowa; Sabin, of Minnesota; Jones, of
Nevada; Mitchell, of Oregon; Don Cam
eron, of Pennsylvania, and Spooner, of
Wisconsin. all of whom hold their seats
till 1891.
In this years Senatorial elections the
Republicans add to the number Far
well, of Illinois; Stockbridge, of Mich
igan; Stewart, of Nevada, and Quay,
of Pennsylvania. Is there single one
of all these who is distinguished for
craftsmanship, for oratory, for expert
ence in national affairs Is there one
who would be made a United States
Senator if he did not possess large
wealth or was not a creature of cor
porationsP
just as surely as the Republican
power in the Senate has declined in the
past it will continue, TO decline in the
future, if the party thus ignores
the public interests and the honor of
the country and lends itself to the pur-
poses of corporations and the ambi-
lions Of moneyed aIistOcracy.-M T.
World
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Seven million children attend
school daily in this country and about
six million wish they didn't have to.
"A great religious revived is sweep
ing over Northern New Brunswick. 1t
is said to be unequaled in the history
of the provinces.
At Zurich 90 women are now pur-
suing the study of medicine; in London
4S, and at Paris, 1O3. At the latter IS
have obtained their diplomas Of doctor
during the past seven years.
Newspaper dispatches say that at
the last meeting in Omaha, Neb., of
Rev. Sam Jones he secured contribu-
tons for a new Young Mems Christian
Association building amounting TO
ISL, 900.
Before sailing for home General
Booth, of the Salvation Army. claimed
that during his stay in this country he
had put in 600 hours on the cars, had
spoken to 10000 American sinners ut
129 meetings, and had saved $500 souls.
After twenty-eight miles Of riding
in a wagon, fourteen miles on horse
back, aDd organizing Il Sunday-school,
missionary met dozen cowboys in
the evening, and they spent an hour in
singing gospel characterization at
Work.
During the past year $13,284.986
was expended for educational purposes
in the State of New York. Of this
amount 9,lO2, 268 was for teachers
wages. There are 31.325 schOol-teach-
ers and 1880 school children in the
State.-N. Y. Tribune.
1T is reported that Mr.. Moody has
received from Mr.. d. NJ. Weston, of
the Shawmut Church, Boston, a dona-
ton of $4,000. to be applied to his ed
ucational work at Mortified and Mt.
HermOn, Mass. With this gift another
dOImitory is TO be built.-B0StOn Jour
nal.
AT reception given to the Baptist
Union at its late meeting in Bristol,
England, by the mayor of the city. its
president said that on the 4th of OctO-
Der, 1853, the Mayor of Bristol sent
two Baptist ministers to prison for
preaching, but on the 4th of October,
1886, its mayor gave a grand reception
to Baptist ministers.
The trustees of Columbia College,
New York City, have voted to celebrate
its centennial next April. In the vari-
Gus departments, literary and scientific,
there are 1,514 students this year. The
authorities have negatived the students
petition that Greek and Latin be made
elective studies after sophomore year.
IN y. Mail.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
Canine SagacitY.

a black and white collie, belonging
to one of the shepherds at Bughtrigg.
was sent on Tuesday from Jedburgh by
train to Langholm. The dog arrived
safely at Langholm, and remained
quietly at his new home till Friday
morning. when he was missed. To the
surprise of his former owner. he APP
peared early on Monday morning at
Bughtrigg, a distance of nearly sixty
miles from LanghOlm. Now, when it
is stated that this dog had gone by
train and had never travelled foot of
the road before, the fact of his finding
his way back over hills and moors to
his former home is certainly remark
able instance of that sagacity, or, well,
call it what you like, so often found in
the shepherds Scotsman.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
IS HE IN POuTICS2 ,
Cneasness Among the Biainiacs" as Co
Ex-senator COnkling's Intentions

Uneasine.s Among the BIainiacs" as TO
Ex-senator ConkIinG's Intentions
There may be yet more grief in store
for the Blainiacs. A new figure looms
up whom Blaine thought he had left
h0Ts de combat. 1t is no less a person
than Roscoe Conkling. who is still not
b. any means an old man. That he is
power in the party nobody denies.
4 correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record has been looking the matter up.
He SAYS:
II would not be matter of surprise to the
veteran politicians If Mr.. COnilling should turn
up at Albany as a candidate for election 10 the
United States Senate-though il would be in
the nature OF an unpleasant surprise for Mr.
Blaine. l notice that our Roscoe is again CIV
ing close attention TO his attire, and that he
wears good clothes, trims his beard and
changes his necktie frequently. These signs,
in tn case of 4 widower. always indicate
matt mony. ard, with Mr.. Conl:lag may be
taken for an intention TO again coquet with
politics and WOO the Republican majority in
the Legislature. Besides, he has maze a snug
little sum in the last six years, and has laid by
and safely invested $9DJ,OO) for his old age, his
wife having as much more in her own Tigh,- So
Mr Conklng, at ffty-eight, alert. handsome
and eloquent. whose bugle blast is worth 10000
men to his party any day. may safely aspire 10
the Senate Is New Yoril's only great Repub-
lean leader, and not unre2solabIy lie may
have an eye upon the Presidency.
Conkiing would naturally take the
place Of Logan as stalwart leader. He
will be even more formidable, for he
has no recent quarrels to heal up as
Logan courage had made him. Conk-
lin@'s quarrels were not so noble and
creditable as Logan's, but they were
not SO recent. He is incOmparably SUI
perior to Blaine in every mani Y trait.
He would not be driven to so many
personal explanations involving down
right falsehood. Still, he may have
learned to dislike politics, and he may
also have no aspirations higher than
the Senate. He might give the New
York Blaine henchmen some trouble on
that score. Blaine can't afford to let
Conkling back into public life on any
terms or for any purpose. Prcconceived
purposes and final acts do not always
correspond in magnitude.
OuI dNlN iCt ~ Illt unhappy StOIill-
driven Blaine boomers is to keep Il
weather eye on Conkling. His motives
may lie the most innocent in the world.
But even then he may experience new
motives. Where power is ample and
nothing is lacking but motive it is
safe to look out. Motives come with
strange suddenncss and from strange
sources sometimes. 1t is pity for the
Blaine people. Their distress is eX-
treme, and has led them to do some
questionable things of late in order to
save their candidate az least until con-
vention time. They had Il long siege
trying to get him nominated. and then
failed TO get him elected, and any fur
Their disasters are cruel to the extent Of
exciting sympathy even among bitter
enemies eS NoincS Leader.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
an Importanr Arres..

The arrest OF a suspicious character upon
his general appearance, movements or com
panionship, without waiting until he has
robbed a traveller, fired a house, or muir
dered fellow-man, is an important func-
ton of shrewd detective. Even more i'm
portant is the arrest of disease which, if
not checked, viii blight and destroy hu
man life. The frequent cough, loss OF
appetite, general languor or debility, pallid
skin, and bodily aches and pains, announce
the approach of pulmonary consumption
which is promptly arrested and permanent
ly cured by DR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. Sold by druggists.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

It's Sx,Sose Is Soltly fer the legitimate healing Of
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Ithas stood stoftweny years in relieving perod
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Probably other woman in the world receives 50
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Lynn Mass. Mrs. p of Enfield, n. H., says:
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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

Here was an aggregate apprOpria-
ton in eight years of more than S17O,-
600, 600. During that period the Brit
ish Government expended about twice
as much money on its navy, and it hal
in 1877, as it has now. the most forn>i-
dable fleet IN the world. The question
naturally arises: If by spending One-
half rs much money as England the
United State can not at present show
single ship of war capable of meeting
and resisting hostile fleet, how many
more millions would they have been
compelled to spend in order to have had
one such vessel?
The groteSque insincerity of the
organs of the dispensation which re-
duced the American navy to this de-
plorable condition in pretending that
Robesonism and Roachism are things
to be honored and applauded will not
long survive inspection of the figures
and glance at the results. Admiral
Porter's review of the situation places
matters in as bad light as has yet
been thrown upon them, and the
emphasis with which he dwells upon
them can not be ascribed to partyism.
1t is the duty of Congress to look the
facts squarely in the face, TO repair the
waste and to lose no time in furtherino
the plans of the department for an en-
tire reconstruction of the fleet.-Chicd-
40 HerGlH
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
The Republicans /" Navy

In letter to Congressman Lawler
Admiral Porter made use of the eN-
pressions: Every harbor on our coast
is at the mercy of hostile guns" Our
blackboard cities are entirely open. y
There is not nation on earth that
could not wage war upon our coasts
with perfect impunity." 1--WE have
but a single frigate which could be
made ready to fire a gun in months. ="
The old navy is gone or is going so fast
that it is no longer available for war
purposes. The new navy is Yet on the
stocks or on paper.
For the purpose of emphasizing the
recklessneSs and corruption OF the era
which brought the great navy of the
war period 10 this condition the
amount of money expended on the es-
tablishment from 1869 to 1877 is here
=, !
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

Scrofula, Bronchitis and General Debility
will try Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil
with Hypophosphites, they will find I'm
mediate relief and permanent benefit. The
Medical Profession universally declare 1t a
remedy of the greatest value and very pala-
table. Read: 81 have used Scott's Emul-
sion in several cases of Scrofula and De
bility in Children. Results most crafty
ing NY little patients take it with pleas
ure. w. A. HUBERT, NJ. D., Salisbury, Ill
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

PRICKLY ASH BIrTERs is an unfailing
cure for all diseases originating in hillary
arrangements caused by the malaria OF
miasmatic countries. No other medicine
now on sale will so effectually remove the
disturbing elements, and at the same time
tone up the whole system. 1t is sure and
safe in its action
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03


is the exclamation of thousands suffering
from catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh
can be cured by DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rene
dy. 1t has been done in thousands of cases
why not in yoursi Your danger is in de-
lay. Enclose a stamp to Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, Buffalo, n. Y,
for pamphlet on this disease.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" are
widely known as an admirable remedy for
Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Coughs and Throat
troubles. Sold only hI 6o1ss. Price p cts
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

WEAK lungs, splitting of blood, consump-
ton and kindred affections, cured without
physician. Address for treatise, with III
cents in stamps, Worlds Dispensary Medl-
cal Association. 663 Main St., Buffalo, Il. Y.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03

CHAT settles it" as the cook remarked
when she put some egg shells in the coffee
pot, and she didn't use slang, either.-Iezas
SiffiIgS.